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I actually ran Marcie fast enough to keep her entertained tonight and moving with me on two courses. It was a fun match, not a real trial.
AND the major breakthrough! After running 3 courses, I was able to run the JWW course TWICE in the 90 minutes we had in the ring.
The weather was absolutely gorgeous tonight. A thunderstorm had gone through and dropped the temperature down to probably the high 80’s. VERY cool for Dallas. It was overcast but a tad humid.

There is a teacher workshop in Arkansas that is a really good deal however, it’s scheduled the Friday and Saturday before we report.
So I’m going to fly Southwest, let them pick me up, and come back the next day.
It will be interesting to see how it goes. I’m going to put all meds, CPA machine, and pump supplies in a carry on. I need to make sure I meet TSA requirements to take the sharps (needles, lancets and insertation sets).

I’m starting to feel like I’ve had a productive summer.
I’ve gotten a good habit of working out every day, thanks to the help from iShape. I’ve even lost some weight, but man is it hard.
I’ve got a good handle on my blood sugar. It’s a lot more stable than it was last summer without that pump, that’s for sure.
I have all the work turned in for my master’s level class — we have a test this week and it will be done.
I’m still waiting to hear from the district on our district final, but I think that will be ready sometime next week and we should be able to sign off on it. Both looked good then.
I’ve gotten all the district required staff development done that I can, and even have the paperwork turned in on the AP workshop (did that this week). I still have 2 weeks of an online class to do on one, but I think I”m going to get the majority of that done by the end of the weekend. I have to do a lesson plan and turn it in for that.
I’ve gotten my websites all moved to the same server (with the same IP address). I even have most of my classroom website up, and I’ve started working on my lesson plans and other assignments.
I’ve got two full weeks before school starts. Maybe I’ll get to do some playing.

It’s really strange….
When I decreased my basal by .05 units for 4 hours — from 8:00 pm to midnight — I saw my overall blood sugar increase slowly. It came to a “head” on Thursday, when I had a teacher workshop to sit in all day, so I put the basal rate back.
But I was still seeing the low postprandial blood sugars after meals. I plug the last 2 week and last 1 week TDD in a spreadsheet and watch it carefully, and today, I hit a carb ratio of 12 according to the Rule of 500. So, after a couple of days of stable blood sugars I decided to drop the bolus rate from 1:11 to 1:12.
So apparently, my bolus rate is decreasing with increased exercise and decreased weight, but it isn’t affecting the basal rate much. And that does mean that my TDD is also decreasing.

The other guys were okay, but face it, when you have gotten used to a system, it’s hard to be comfortable with a new one.

Here’s the deal.

I used to run a mailing list at http://www.click-l.com Well, with the number of spammers running around, you get labeled one, or at least treated like when when you run a mailing list. Sad but true. Anyway, one of the ways the server farms have been trying to combat the spammers, is they are limiting the number of emails that go out during a specific time period.

I was not told what was going on, just all of a sudden most of the mail was being returned and I had to deal with it.

I tried the new guys and they had to pull the same thing.

Oh, I should give credit where credit IS due. The server I use is at http://www.techark.com and Monte does a super job. Very little wait time on any requests, and he usually gets it on the first try, especially when answering questions.

The other guys, are http://www.webhostfreaks.com — they have a potential of being a great service, but don’t have 24/7 service yet, which is a problem. They also have a site at http://www.phpfreaks.com which is super if you want to learn php.

Long story but I’m moving the weblog back to my original server… Expect some service interruption.